Local News

Laconia City Council moves forward with plans for tax break for new businesses
By RICK GREEN, LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Industrial businesses that want to locate or expand in the city would get a property tax break under a plan approved Monday by city councilors.
The idea is to attract and encourage the kind of companies that can provide good-paying jobs and boost the local economy.
City Manager Scott Myers had urged the City Council to consider offering... Read more

Letters

To The Daily Sun,
We, the volunteers of the Center Harbor Food Pantry, would like to thank the Bald Peak Community Fund for recognizing us in their donation of $5,000. Their donation will help us to keep going in the winter months ahead and will help feed the less fortunate among us that are burdened with other bills such as fuel, higher electric bills, etc.
We feed approximately 1,600 people a month in the winter and are... Read more

Announcements

Jay Fitzpatrick, one of the LRAA Gallery’s photo artists, captured this photo of Santa on his way to the LRAA Gallery. (Courtesy photo)
TILTON — The Lakes Region Art Association Gallery in cooperation with Tanger Outlets is hosting an appearance by Santa Claus at the LRAA Gallery (located across from the Chocolate Factory) during the third weekend in December. Matthew Fassett, a local professional photographer from the Alton area and LRAA Gallery member, will be available... Read more

Obituaries

BOSCAWEN — Miriam E. (Beattie) Downs, 87, died peacefully Nov. 25, 2017, at Merrimack County Nursing Home in Boscawen. She was born and raised in Woburn, Massachusetts, the youngest daughter of Harold V. and Esther (Pottle) Beattie. It was here that she met Clayton E. Downs, the love of her life, and they were married in 1949.Miriam and Clayton raised their family and farmed in Belmont, where they operated a small dairy farm and sold... Read more

Columns

"We will never accept Russia's occupation and attempted annexation of Crimea," declaimed Rex Tillerson last week in Vienna. "Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns full control of the peninsula to Ukraine."
Tillerson's principled rejection of the seizure of land by military force — "never accept" — came just one day after President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and pledged to move our embassy there.
How did Israel gain title to East Jerusalem, the West... Read more